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The main problem is that computer researchers don't always write up their ideas in papers. And source code is hard to read, system dependent - you can't understand it without being familiar with hardware which may not even exist any more - and may be impossible to access.

This isn't really about history. This is about ideas which could still be useful today but which have been forgotten, for a variety of reasons.

Most CS departments don't have anyone who specialises in this. And academic historians have other priorities.

Calling this dumbing down doesn't help. It's not about historians "dumbing down" CS, it's about not understanding the difference between what historians do - create narratives - and what archivists and researchers do, which is more closely related to continuing research and development.

Physics actually has the same problem. Anything outside a limited mainstream is forgotten very quickly. Math seems less prone to it, perhaps because math is made of academic papers and nothing else, and there's more of a tradition of open exploration and communication.
That's what happens in the (very) long term. In the short term (decades/centuries), you're going to see a lot of extremes from one day to the next.
Does there exist this sort of thing for graphql?
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Yup, correct.
Geometric Algebra is merely a variant of linear algebra that is purpose-designed for describing geometric concepts such as signed areas. For comparison, vector algebra is mostly a direct extension of linear algebra. Linear algebra was originally largely designed for solving large systems of simultaneous equations. Its native objects, vectors and matrices, are not ideal for geometric concepts. Trying to pretend everything is a vector ends up causing issues with the equations that are hideous to solve.

Some of these issues are not obvious when manipulating vector algebra purely symbolically. They manifest when it comes time to create a numerical simulation. You suddenly realise that there are practical issues such as high numerical error, conditional statements all over the place, and corner-cases like gimbal lock.

For comparison, something like simulating the full electromagnetic interaction in a 4D spacetime ought to be straightforward with a geometric algebra!

It's just that I haven't seen anyone try. Every EM textbook is the same. They go through the same equations. The same algebra. The same symbolic solutions. With the same corner cases. The same numerical stability issues. The same result: "Oh we can talk about it, but rendering it is too hard!"

I want an "acid test" of EM, a... wavepool to play with. Not a toy model. The full thing, capable of simulating even obscure but experimentally-verified results such such as the Aharonov–Bohm effect. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharonov%E2%80%93Bohm_effect

That is, I want something where instead of plugging numbers into a simplified equation to derive such effects, I want to be able to set up a bunch of charges, press "simulate", and watch the test particle get deflected in the area with zero field.
Uh, since we’re talking about intolerance... you should be careful how you wield Popper, you might even realize you’ve become your own enemy
MMIX is not bullshit. Knuth is interested in concrete complexity as well as asymptotic complexity, e.g. why quick sort is faster than heap sort, so he needs concrete model of computation. It may be an overkill if you aren't interested in concrete complexity, but it serves a purpose.
I tried to jail break my kindle a while back. But Amazon auto pushed a new firmware and prevented it minutes before I could reboot with the crack. So now my device is up to date and catching dust again. Thanks Amazon.
>Why is WSB different?

Because they annoy the "rich and powerful".
What r/wsb is doing is fundamentally no different than hedge funds. Wall Street constantly makes trades that move the market, and nobody bats an eye.

Now when it's some self deprecating band of screaming mad lads beat hedge fund managers at their own game, suddenly it's foul play and the free market must be regulated. Doubly so if they are loud and make stupidly idiotic trades that go against the grain of any financial wisdom passed out in the past century and win out big time - how dare they?!

PS: They haven't sold their positions, and I'm sure by the time they expire some of them will definitely have won big time.

PPS: I also like to think of the man or woman who had some shares sitting in the account that they got from working for Gamestop a couple of decades ago, thinking it was worthless now. Until some dumbasses on the internet went and skyrocketed their net worth for no apparent reason other than for shits and giggles.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym
Terrorist? Really?

I guess most ineffectual terrorist on the world.
Well, better in some sense: they might be cleaner, or more robust on some axis, but perhaps not practical or efficient. But, with computing the landscape can change rapidly so it is always good to see if older ideas can now be made a reality.
> I am estimating a 50% chance of global civilization collapse by 2030.

You are saying that the human population will be ~3,500,000,000 less in the next ten years? That's...an extraordinary claim to make.
History is not just about time — what happened when.

An equally important part is the ordering and the reasons something happened.

You can know how to write simple programs in all paradigms, but fail to understand what to use when.
You might have memorized a long list of algorithms but not understand the trade-offs involved in choosing one.

Of course history is not the only way to understand this, but it is definitely one good method.
You're literate, you can form complete sentences, most of you have a post secondary education. It's not news, you've had your whole life to figure this out. The debate was over a long time ago. The party is over, the balloons are all either popped or up in the ceiling. Time to put away your gazoo, and wash the make-up off. This is no time to be a clown.
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Yes it is important. Sometimes details matter, and often the only place details can be found is actual source code.
It is not and it never has been.
> Capability based security, ... They had it at Xerox PARC, but Steve Jobs chose not to take that part.

To be fair:

1) Apple II and Macintoshes were slow

2) and single user

3) and pre-Internet (no networking, even.)

Microsoft also had to make an early choice about what features to add to DOS, particularly networking or multiuser, and networking was chosen to implement first. (Probably because of Novell and other early networking competitors.)

> the PARC focus on replicating paper was a step backwards

"Replicating paper" was resurrected about 10 years ago when everybody was making apps with a UI like books turning pages. There was actually a programmer (Russian name if I receall) who specialized in consulting on that, advising companies on what algorithms to use and how to get the page flipping appearance they wanted. I thought it was pointless but hilarious, as it was totally ornamental.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph
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Nothing like reducing your carbon footprint by using a composting toilet and having 3 offspring
i dont think banning the trump subreddit dispersed the group
Looks like we have one group of billionaires defending another, as per usual.
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> like the GPL, discourages commercial use

Comments of this sort was comme il faut in the 90s. But now, more than two decades later, GPL has proven its commercial value so many times over it's hard to take such arguments seriously.

Tit-for-tat business models grow faster than those staking out islands. Linux won. We need to move on from this.
The problem is that if someone is acting in bad faith, it is almost impossible to answer every single challenge that a truly bad faith actor might bring up.

And even if you answer 99 challenges correctly, but you instead make a single small mistake, or you mispeak, or the other person intentionally misinterprets what you are saying, then the bad faith actor can declare victory and "win" the debate, because of a single, irrelevant, or minuscule mistake.

If someone is not acting in bad faith, it is almost impossible to not lose to them.
Then you won't be able to accomplish anything as there's 8 billion ways to interpret anything.
Refugees from where?
Also I guess Fabien Sanglard's "Game Engine Black Books" (on Doom and Wolfenstein 3D: https://fabiensanglard.net/gebb/), and John Aycock's book "Retrogame Archeology: Exploring Old Computer Games".

(Wonder why all these examples are from computer games…)
The discord was terribly moderated long ago. Apparently nothing changed but maybe a few more rules and auto mutes.

I don’t get offended by the ways people move their mouth or words they substitute for what they say.

If you have been around a racist, you will learn all the secret terms they use or not so secret. Go ahead and look up slang terms for light or dark skinned people in other languages.

Discord just so happened to enforce their rules at a very opportunistic time.
This is really exciting, feels like open standards, independent internet is going to continue getting extreme motivation to expand and establish, with private "freedom of speech" censorship by for-profit platforms.

We're going to see more fragmentation, and growth of closed platforms perceived by users as "slightly less evil" such as telegram vs watsapp. This may also motivate the return to truly open internet ideals of the past.
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If someone wants you to listen, it is self-evident that they want your help

Help? Or compliance?
you end up reinventing virtual dispatch

But you can have virtual dispatch without OO, see e.g. Clojure.
> in some countries VW just overtook Tesla in vehicles sold

This is 100% caused by the WV ID.3 being delayed. There was a metric fuckton of preorders, which were delayed because of software issues.

After they got the software fixed enough for a release, they "sold" (delivered) a bazillion cars in a few months, boosting them on the top of every chart.

It's a great car, but the software isn't still complete and has obvious bugs, nothing fatal but a bunch of annoyances - they didn't even manage to get OTA updates working.
Is this like how blacks are against whites saying nugget but if your lack its alright? Does context not matter anymore? Should a set of people not be allowed to say something because it might offend them?
I just jailbroke my Kindle the other day – PaperWhite 4. Loving KOReader, and looking for more things to run. Awesome to see that there are still modders out there.
No.

Naked shorting is when you sell the underlying stock without borrowing it first. You have 2-3 days from transaction to settlement (depending on the market), so you can enter a transaction at T and then only locate borrow at T+2. Obviously, you're running the risk that you can't find borrow in time.

In most cases, however, you short by checking for available borrow first, and _then_ shorting.
Whats the advantage other than some intellisense clean up through hiding some functions? As you're well aware, you can write new functions of OO types as well.

Either you lose private/protected state and the advantages or you replace them with module visible state and the disadvantages.
Yes, just played and Necromancer with auto-fire on, maxed out bullet damage, bullet speed, and reload speed. Got boring winning easily after half an hour.

Fun game though! Just needs a little more balancing.
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I wonder how common this is
> Being immature means you behave immature

Immature: Not fully formed or developed; not grown [1]

It depends on what sense you use it in, just like the r-word.

> Scolding someone for behaviour is very different than scolding them for something they can't change about them selves (e.g. like where they have been born).

Literally what the r-word controversy is about. Glad you finally get it. Except of course if you think that someone was being scolded for having mental deficiency or specifically an IQ below 70 or something, which I doubt and which I would agree would be just as uncouth as scolding an immature person (in the sense of not being fully developed or grown) for being immature as they can't change that about themselves.

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immature#Adjective
> The truth is, both environment factors into free speech and every society has to strike a balance.

This, I agree with. But the point I'm trying to make is that this cuts both ways. Alice has every right to make her point however she wants. Bob also has every right to not lend her his resources to amplify that. Charlie has a right to criticize Bob for denying resources, etc etc.

I note that the shoe never seems to be on the other foot — e.g., the crowd that gets angry about Discord banning hate speech is curiously quiet about the chilling effect white nationalist rallies have on people of color.
The puritans among us have been trying to keep the language clean for centuries. Wasn't Huckleberry Finn banned at one point.

Librarians have been fighting the same battle as well.

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks...

There's a reason Signal got 40 million people in a week.

Seems like free speech platforms all the way down to the infrastructure level would be great investments to build right now.
But what if they are bought by another company? That the original company controls?
Every month I go into The Who Is Hiring thread and Ctrl-F for “climate,” “energy,” and “carbon” and almost never turn anything up.

I’ve been part of this community for something like ten years and I know many people on here to be extremely shrewd and intelligent, and yet, over and over again, I see people who don’t understand the scale of climate change at all, nor the scale of the opportunity involved in transitioning the world’s energy and infrastructure away from burning carbon.

Is Peter Kalmus a little eccentric? Sure. But who’s crazier — him, or the vast majority of the Hacker News community who just completely shrug off climate change and the opportunity represented by the transition, even now that there are several clean energy billionaires?
I'd say (almost) everybody is self-actualizing as a primary activity.
You have to spread the fingers to form OK sign.

Dimwits? You mean 4chan that used media to make neutral sign look racist? Or the white supremacists that took the free advertisement and appropriated a common sign?

The only dimwits are the media companies that contributed to it.
It isn’t that backwards? Retard isn’t a slur against against people with intellectual disabilities, it is a neutral description of people with intellectual disabilities, used to slur your buddy who said something dumb.
Surely, this evaluation relates to the public sphere perspective. Along with insurance companies, every single relevant government action that requires estimations of life value, tacitly or explicitly agrees that later years are indeed less valuable than the younger ones and likely, always will. NICE - the UK medical board that decides which medicines can be used in the NHS, constantly makes calculations on quality of life for all ages. This is inevitable if public funds are involved.
In the private sphere, it’s a completely different matter. This seemingly 'uncaring' stance only applies where public decisions are involved. No reason for this evaluation to necessarily work at a personal level if the state (taxpayer) does not pay for it.
I went to a TED talk at UNGA week a few years ago, and the presenter talked about various things that can be done to limit climate change. At the top of the list was women's education/empowerment. This got a lot of applause from the audience, who were excited to clap for preventing climate change and empowering women at the same time.

The presenter did briefly mention the reason that these two laudable goals coincide, which is that women who are empowered and educated have fewer children. I don't think the presenter would have gotten quite so much applause if he had said "the number one thing we can do to prevent climate change is to make sure women in developing countries don't reproduce quite so much". And to be sure, he wasn't saying we should just fund birth control and abortions — he was framing that as a result of educating and empowering women.

But it's no coincidence that the Gates Foundation has dedicated hundreds of millions of dollars to their Family Planning initiative in Africa. [1]

So it may not be in the headlines, but the UN and others are surely aware of the impact of population growth.

1: https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/gates-foundation-com...
As a public institution, UW has an obligation to take seriously and investigate allegations of academic fraud. Besides that they also have a reputation to maintain.
Since we are linking to wikipedia articles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homonym

I read in a circular delivered by the express that sometimes words express different meanings then the mean read of the word.
I argue it was another issue. The community got too big for discord to handle as of now. My iPad app got completely unresponsive and I could not use discord anymore at all. I assume similar situations depending on the clients.
As someone classed as middle aged, gender is a synonym for sex to me, as it had been for decades. If you want to introduce new concepts, it would be easier for everyone if you used new words instead of trying to take over existing words.

https://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/77468
Surely if anything they've got 'more naked' - there's more held long, almost conspiratorial borrow disallowing, and >100% short interest.
Yes, but if that shell company owns more than half the shares, the shareholders can’t decide anything because they would always be the minority.
> ad-friendly discourse

Discord has zero ads, FYI.
Doesn't seem like it necessarily stops inheritance. You need to throw away method references or you're just back to open faced classes.

You can still write new methods that blow away any assumptions previously made about type state,causing bugs. It seems like it could be even worse seeing as you possibly have less access controls for fields.
They can host their own matrix server... It's not that hard. Then they won't have to whine about deplatforming. When will they learn? Companies aren't your friends: the bottom line is.

If they wanted to have an anonymous server, they could host it on I2P and provide instructions on how to connect.
Especially since the term cathedral was popularized by esr to call out the development style of the GNU project.
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I'm curious to know which "serious warts" in C++ would be fixed by making everything an object.
Why not? `nonlocal` is pretty straightforward, isn’t it?
Bill Gates is making most of his money on appreciation of his MSFT shares, and has no use for liquidity on any significant portion of them. A person can only spend so much; consumption inequality is much less dramatic than wealth or income inequality. So the vast majority of "income" at this level is unrealized capital gain, not taxable at all.

When someone like this does need liquidity, the top marginal tax rate on capital gain is 20%, not 37% like it is for wage income. But cheaper still is interest. He can pledge the shares as collateral and take out a loan at something like 2%/year (probably less).

Progressive taxation is only for wage workers. A FAANG senior engineer is "the 1%" within the progressive tax system, and getting hit as hard as it is possible to get hit. But his founder-CEO lives outside the progressive tax scheme (c.f. Steve Jobs and his $1 salary), barely has a foot in any tax scheme (most gains unrealized), and is paying almost nothing in percentage terms.
It's not obvious that this is an issue with the WebRTC sessions themselves. If a server is responsible for muxing the streams, each client could be in a properly negotiated session with the server, and due to an internal software defect with how the server renders the streams for a client, the client could experience exactly the symptoms you describe.
> I think there’s a difference between using the word to target someone who is disabled and using it the way it’s used on wsb.

Try being a white person and using the n-word in any context at all. Apart from an incredibly narrow set of contexts, it's deeply offensive and will be called out as such. Joking with your other white friends isn't one of the acceptable contexts.
> “I was hoping to be able to say it was more to do with our world-class nickel projects.”

Gotta give him credit for a solid plug
xkcd 1357 was a disaster for the online discourse.
Do you mind telling us which paper it was? I have a faint idea which one you mean, because I've read a bunch about reddit, and I would love to know if it's the same one or something else.
They still want to keep their reputation good (in the eyes of potential advertisers) if/when they want to add it in the future.
I live in Finland and we need to sell a special kind of diesel for it to stay liquid during winter months. Cranking a diesel in -30C weather is ... not a fun experience. Petrol engines are a bit better, but the 5W40 oil is like syrup and the sound the engine makes is not pleasant to hear.

With an electric car I can just jump in, press a button and it'll just start. In -27C a few weeks ago I timed it and it started blowing in warm air in 3 minutes, in 8 minutes the internal temperature was around 20C. Yes, it affects the range, but I don't drive hundreds of km a day, so the convenience and comfort trumps range for me every day.

If my car was less shit (Hyundai limiting app availability per country ffs) I could heat up my car with my phone and jump in when it's nice and toasty.
Clearly the uptick in Mac sales is due to the pandemic and work from home

It will be interesting to see what happens when the pandemic is over. Will the gains technology companies have enjoyed be reversed?
Usually you borrow stock to sell short. You're short it because you sold it without owning it (and still have to give it back later).

Naked short is selling without even borrowing it.
In a nation of processed, canned foods and insane quantities of sugary drinks, is anyone surprised?
"Here's 5 lines of pseudocode" "Here's a real-world implementation of the pseudocode. Note this section does not improve the asymptotic case, but has significant constant-factor advantages for small inputs."

[edit]

I noticed you mentioned "heap" assuming you're talking about the data-structure, that would probably be in a different class than one where you read windows source code. Just like you probably wouldn't read Joyce in a class on composing newspaper articles.

I still think it's useful to dissect existing code to get an idea of how complicated it really can be. A CS undergrad may graduate without ever reading or writing a single program over 1kloc. Even from an academia perspective, having a concept that real-world software is usually 100s or 1000s of kloc is likely useful.
Heh, two weeks ago people on HN were citing the the paradox of tolerance to promote anti-free-speech.
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Absolutely fire retardent.
Why do you give so much valuable headspace to HN? In the scheme of things, it's mostly irrelevant and impotent. There are more fruitful grounds if you seek allies in your climate change work.
> A terrorist speaking in an encoded message to cause wilful harm is still liable for it, even if the words don't exactly say that.

This should be true, but recent events may prove it false.